Fish Wednesday: Cod Master Edition

Here’s the thing about Fish Wednesday. It’s not just a meal. There’s cleaning and shopping and reading and planning. There’s pondering guests and sides and what goes on the table with the fish. There’s messing with the camera and wondering if it’s going to work. And there’s eating, most times, a fine meal. Sure, there’s …


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Why Hula was Outlawed

I don’t care how heterosexual you say you are (ladies) or how skinny you like your women (guys). If you can not lose your heart to a (age appropriate, of course) hula dancer just a little bit, well, you are kind of dead inside. You might want to just stop living. There’s a nice movie …


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Rainbow Bingo at the West Seattle Senior Center

If you don’t have evening plans, well, the Flip Flops – that’s me and a buncha guys – are the opening entertainment at Gay Bingo tonight at the West Seattle Senior Center – it’s a fund raiser for the center. We’re a real combo, we have a drummer and a bass player and everything. I’m …


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Fish Wednesday: Tex Mex Thursday Edition

I had to make dinner early because tonight was dress rehearsal for our “gig.” It’s important to go to “band” practice well fueled, you need a meal in your belly to absorb the illicit drugs and free flowing alcohol and the groupies, who can be expected to provide – um – gratification, may not show …


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The Ballard Locks

On one side of the locks salmon are hurling themselves out of the water into broad daylight just to get up one six inch step in the fish ladder. Their tailfins flail furiously, one breaches the surface of the sound in a perfect arc and plunges back in again. We cheer for them as they …


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Savor Seattle Food Tours

Disclaimer: Angela Shen, the owner of Savor Seattle, invited me to attend her tour – and kindly allowed me to bring my house guest. I never get tired of the market. When I’m feeling down on Seattle, when it’s February and I wonder what the hell I was thinking moving to this rainy awful place, …


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